Making a Difference!

Designed by Sharon M. Reinhart January 2020

I am sure you have all come across those people in your life that truly make a difference, well I have a few of those peeps as well and wanted to express that I do notice and appreciate what they do! This card is a side fold A2 card created with red cardstock, with a white cardstock circle panel that was cut using a Studio Katia die template. I adhered the circle panel to the card front using foam mounting tape to give a bit of dimension. Next I punched several white hearts and one gold heart using a Fiskars punch. I wanted a little bit of texture on the hearts but just a subtle touch so I embossed all the hearts with a Stampin Up embossing folder that gives the look of linen. Next the white hearts were adhered into each circle except the bottom right using Tombow liquid glue or Scor-tape. The gold heart has been adhered with foam mounting tape. The sentiment from Impression Obsession was stamped with black ink and die cut using a circle die. For a little definition I sponged black ink on the circle edge. Two smaller circles were die-cut from red cardstock and adhered at the top and bottom of the sentiment circle. The finishing touch was adding the metallic gold gems, smaller ones were adhered to the white hearts and four larger ones to the corners of the card.
This card could easily be transformed into a Valentine, Wedding, Anniversary or Birthday card just by switching up the sentiment! I hope you are inspired to create! Stay tuned for mini Valentine inspiration!
Creatively Yours,
Sharon

Wedding Thank-you Cards!

Designed by Sharon M. Reinhart
As seen in CardMaker Update June 20th issue

For those of you getting married this summer or those of you helping people with their weddings, you might like to check out the CardMaker Update and my June 20th issue about personalizing wedding thank-you notes. These thank you note backgrounds have been created with an acrylic block technique and a marker watercolor technique. Hope you will head on over to CardMaker Magazine to get a full look and description!
Creatively Yours,
Sharon

Elegant Stamped Heart!

Project Design ©Sharon M. Reinhart

Just had to share this Valentine card that I made for DH. The inspiration for this card is from a delicate heart image created by the talented Suzanne Cannon of Quietfire Design, it is from set #6248 which is perfect for Valentines, Wedding, Anniversary or simply to let someone special know that they are loved. Just love the beautiful intricate heart that Suzanne has created with her own talented hands! There are wonderful flourishes and in the right hand side a very pretty flower. I chose to leave the image as is without alterations.The flower however would look very beautiful colored with Tombows, Distress Markers, Copics or your medium of choice.
Usually when I purchase unmounted stamps, the first thing I do is apply the cling cushion material - with these stamps you don't have to. I read someplace on Suzanne's site or blog that she often just puts some double sided tape on her mount and then attaches the rubber image. I thought I would put this to the test and voila it is so true! This image of the heart was stamped with only the rubber image on an acrylic mount. Now you are free to adhere the images to cling cushion and its probably recommended but I was very surprised and impressed at how well it stamped using only the mount. I am thrilled to hear that Annie's catalog is now stocking some of Quietfire Design images that I used in my newest book Iris Folding for Life's Special Moments, (not sure if it has officially released but it is up on the Annie's site) and yes it is about iris folding and we have included a variety of materials such as fabric, shimmer sheetz, cardstock, ribbon and papers. I will be sure to keep you posted on this.
The red velvet in this Valentine card is Christmas velvet ribbon that I purchased at the end of the holiday season at a majorly reduced price and its perfect for many other occasions as well. The small hearts are actually punched from the velvet ribbon and in the past I have also used die templates to cut out shapes - love this stuff! My other bargain find was the black glittered band - it is from the wedding section of Michael's and it was 90% off - .53 cents was the cost, can't lose at that. The other addition to this card was a script embossing folder. I hope you enjoy this creation!
Creatively Yours,
Sharon

Pocket Style Cards

Project Design ©Sharon M. Reinhart 2012

I recently taught a class to a group of ladies who were looking for ideas and inspiration for different styles of wedding/shower invitations. This pocket card is one of the cards we created. The pocket style enables you to generate the information on a seperate piece and insert it into the pocket. Or, it could be used as a Thankyou card as shown here.  Just stamp, write or computer-generate your sentiment or note on the insert piece. Two pocket bases can be created from one 12 inch piece of paper. The beautiful sentiment stamp is by the ever so talented Suzanne Cannon of Quietfire Design. She has many wonderful quotes and sayings completed beautifully with calligraphy as well as other images such as flourishes along with a variety of paper-crafting supplies.  I encourage you to check out her web site.  The roses were created using the spiral technique, you can find some step out photos in my CardMaker newsletter about creating flowers. The leaves were created using a Martha Stewart punch. As you can see this style of card is very versatile and would be perfect for thankyou notes, wedding invitations and save the dates, shower invites both wedding and baby, baby announcements, Sweet 16, and for almost any reason or season!
Enjoy!
Creatively Yours,
Sharon

Tea Bag Folded Card

Design ©Sharon M. Reinhart 2011

A quick post tonight to share a tea bag folded card that was showcased in my May 30, 2011 Vol. 5 No. 8 issue of CardMaker's online newsletter. The article was on wedding and shower cards but to show you how you can use a design for different occasions I am sharing this photo and then in my next post I will share the same basic design but created for a different occasion - possibly Christmas.  So stay tuned!
This tea bag fold is a non traditional design as it uses circle shapes rather than the traditional square shapes. It is an easy one to create and can be used for many applications.  Hope you like it!
Creatively Yours,
Sharon

Elegant Wedding Congrats Card!



It is that time of year where many of us find ourselves in need of wedding or shower cards. I have chosen to share this one as it is quick and easy and utilizes an inexpensive object found at a dollar store. Which object do you think that is? You may have guessed it, the wire heart. But do you know what its intended purpose is? It along with its partner used to be earrings. Yes, I could have wire wrapped my own piece and usually do make alot of my embellishments by hand, but this time it really was more feasible to use this embellishment. Just remove the earring wire and insert a crystal brad. Of course the beautiful papers in this card also add to the elegance. The base card is charcoal shimmer card stock. The congrats was die cut and adhered to the card then the card front was embossed using an embossing folder. Beautiful printed chiyogami papers from the Japanese Paper Place were used on a square of coaster board for added dimension, then the embellishment was layered on top. To finish the design the panel was then layered onto a die cut label from Spellbinder's. I love the color pallette in this card and the Chiyogami paper - so much so that I used this color combination and papers to create a tea bag folded design in my most recent book Tea Bag Folding Through The Seasons, just click on the photo at the top right for access to view some of the designs in this book. If you are in the Calgary area, Paper Pastimes carries a wide variety of beautiful Chiyogami papers that I am sure you will love!  Hope you like this card!
Creatively yours,
Sharon